In today’s recent session, 1.89 million shares of the Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE:MFG) have been traded, and its beta is 0.43. Most recently the company’s share price was $5.57, and it changed around -$0.09 or -1.50% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $69.95B. MFG at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $6.08, offering almost -9.16% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.45, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 38.06% since then. We note from Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 3.71 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.60 million.
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.69. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended MFG as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE:MFG) trade information
Instantly MFG has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.50% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 5.68 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.94%. The company’s shares are currently up 14.01% year-to-date, but still up 5.19% over the last five days. On the other hand, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE:MFG) is 9.96% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 2.25 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 0.59 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $10, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 44.3% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MFG is forecast to be at a low of $10 and a high of $10.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 7.14%. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR earnings are expected to increase by 13.09% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 10.30% per year for the next five years.
MFG Dividends
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-14. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 1.55 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.09. It is important to note, however, that the 1.55% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 4.45 per year.
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE:MFG)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.01% of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR shares, and 1.29% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 1.29%. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ADR stock is held by 335.0 institutions, with MORGAN STANLEY being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 0.8933% of the shares, which is about 22.64 million shares worth $95.77 million.
FMR LLC, with 0.5309% or 13.46 million shares worth $56.92 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
American Century ETF Trust-Avantis International Equity ETF and LAZARD RETIREMENT SERIES INC-Lazard Retirement Global Dynamic Multi-As were the top two Mutual Funds as of Apr 30, 2025 . The former held 2.42 shares worth $13.48 million, making up 0.02% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, LAZARD RETIREMENT SERIES INC-Lazard Retirement Global Dynamic Multi-As held roughly 72.32 shares worth around $0.4 million, which represents about 0.00% of the total shares outstanding.
